Wind-operated indicating device.



A. ROHBEGK.

WIND OPERATED INDIGATING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1914.

,11 Patentd Nov. 10, 1914.

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A. ROHBEGK.

WIND OPERATED INDIOATING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION IILED APR. 1, 1914.

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' AUGUST noHBEoK, or BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.

WIND-OPERATED INDIGA'IING DEVICE.

Application filed April l, 1914. Serial No. 828,922.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, AUGUST RorIBEoK, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Bellingham, vVhatcomcounty, lVashington, have invented certain new and useful. Improvementsin Wind-Operated Indicating Devices, of which the following is a specification. H p

My invention consists of a mechanism, such as a wheel or like memberwhich is acted upon by the wind so as to be thereby turned, and meanswhereby the movements given said wheel act to indicate or select certaincharacters which are combined in the order of their selection to producewritten text.

The object ofmy invention is to produce means whereby impulses of thewind may be used to determine the selectionand sequence of characters,as letters, numbers, etc.

The scope of my invention will be defined by the claims which terminatethis specification.

In the drawings I have shown my invention in its preferred construction.

Figure 1 is an elevation, or side view. Fig. 2 is a plan view of theselecting and print ing disk and of the indicating pointer.

The operating member of this device is a wheel or analogous constructionwhich is mounted so as to turn freely and where it may be acted upon bythe wind. As shown in Fig. 1, this consists of a shaft 1 to which arefixed cross vanes 2, which are in the form of keys. It is not intendedthat these be placed in angular positions which would be analogous tothat of the blades of a wind wheel, that is, so that the wind will turnit continuously in the same direction. On the contrary, it is designedthat the vanes be so'placed that the movements given it by the wind beof a fitful and variable character, both in amount and direction ofturning. It is intended that it be subject and responsive to the fitfulinfluences of the wind, as fully as possible. I have shown an opencasing or frame 3 as inclosing the vanes. This has openings of such sizeas to permit free access of the wind to the vanes.

Secured to the shaft 1 is a pointer 4: which moves as does the vanes.Associated with the pointer are a set of characters, which would usuallybe letters or numbers, these being distributed about a circle which isconcentric with the pivot axisof the pointer Specification of LettersPatent.

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4:. Preferably these are letters 5, which are distributed-about the edgeof a disk 6. The outer edge of this disk is connected by wire stays 12with a central ring 13. Preferably types of printing characters 7 of alike kind are'placed on the lower side of the disk so that thesecharactersmay be trans:

ferred to or impressed upon a sheet of pa per. For convenience inprinting these characters the disk 6 is made manually r0- tatable aboutthe shaft 1, so that all characters may be brought to a fixed printingposition. It is made movable vertically, in order to thus print thecharacters, by yieldingly supporting it, as by springsS, which supportit from the paper carrying table, 9. These types or printing charactersmay be inked by use of an ink pad, or by using an inked ribbon, as shownat 11. The paper 10 is shown beneath the ribbon in Fig. 1. To insureprinting of only the one character designed, a slightly raised table 90is provided beneath the ribbon at the point a here the printing is done.

In using this device, the wind will swing the pointer from one positionto another, causing it to stop at widely varying positions. When thepointer stops, the disk 6 is turned to bring the character indicated bythe pointer to the printing position and the character printed upon asheet of paper by depressing it thereon. This operation follows eachchange in position of the pointer, thus assembling letters in order, theprinted sheet being then examined to discover what, if any, intelligiblemeaning may be found therein.

What I claim as my invention and desire to patent is:

1. A wind controlled indicating device comprising a wind-turned member,a pointer connected to be turned by said member, and a disk mounted tobe turned independently of and about the same axis as said its edge, andmeans for printing from said characters by said movement of the disk.

3. A Wind controlled printing device c0mprising a vertical rotativeshaft, arms in the form of keys carried by one end of said shaft andextending transversely thereof to form a Wind Wheel, a pointer securedto the other end of said shaft, a disk carrying typographic charactersabout its edge and mounted to be turned concentric with the Y shaft andalso to be shifted to press down its edge, a paper holding table beneathsaid disk and means for inking said characters to print therefrom.

4:. A Wind controlledprinting mechanism comprising a revoluble shaft, aWind Wheel secured thereto, a casing inclosing said Wheel affixed mysignature this 25thday of March,

AUGUST ROHBECK.

WVitnesses:

J. E. FERGUSON, DICK WALDHEIM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

